Video: Martha Stewart's spring cleaning

Martha Stewart was invited on TODAY to offer spring cleaning tips as featured in her best-selling book, "Martha Stewart’s Homemaking Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home." An essential resource, the book is the ultimate compendium of ways to create, maintain and clean a home and every room in it, from the basement to the attic. Tips featured on the show included how to sweep, how to clean the refrigerator and even how to clean a telephone. Below are six things to do every day to keep chaos at bay:

Make the BedTidiness begets tidiness. A crisply made bed makes the whole room seem more orderly, which makes it less likely that you'll let other things — such as clothes and papers — pile up around it.

Manage Clutter
Whenever you leave a room, take a quick look around for anything that isn't where it should be. Pick it up and put it where it belongs. Insist that everyone in the household do the same.

Wipe Up Spills While They're Fresh
Whether it's tomato sauce on the cooktop or makeup on the bathroom counter, almost anything is faster and easier to remove if you attend to it immediately.

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Clean as You Cook

Instead of filling the sink with pots and dishes, wash them or put them in the dishwasher as you prepare a meal.

Sort the Mail
Take a few minutes to open, read, and sort mail as soon as you bring it inside. Keep a trash bin near your sorting area for junk mail. Drop other mail into one of four in-boxes: personal correspondence, bills, catalogs, and filing.

Sweep the Kitchen FloorEvery evening once you've finished washing up after dinner, sweep the floor. This will keep tough-to-clean dirt and grime from building up, which will make the weekly mopping much quicker.